I'm reading "genderqueer menopause" by Lasara Firefox Allen at the moment.
It's an interesting book, one take got me thinking. She writes a lot of genderqueer folx who menstruate have dysphoria about that. On the one hand it's really obvious but on the other hand I've never allowed myself to think about menstruation in that way. I've had quite light periods in my youth, but even than they felt like a personal insult. Later I had severe cramps, fatigue and PMDS so no surprise I wasn't happy to have a period. One of the reasons I started HRT was that a third of the twenty six days my cycles were long by then (another thing nobody had told me, the menstrual cycle gets shorter the older you get) I spent in pain or in the conviction I was a generally bad person who was worth nothing.
But even then it never crossed my mind dysphoria might be involved.
#menopause #dysphoria #nonbinary